Learn the 25 keys to unlocking the powerful and useful information buried in corporate financial statements, including understanding balance sheets and income statements, defining accruall accounting, and valuing cost of goods sold, inventory and cash flow.

Analyzing Financial Statements is part of The New York Times Pocket MBA Series is, a 12-volume reference tool for all businesspersons. Each volume, written by professors from top graduate business schools and edited by The New York Times business editors, presents 25 key principles of specific areas of business expertise.

The 12-volume series includes:

• Analyzing Financial Statements
• Business Financing
• Business Planning
• Forecasting Budgets
• Going Global
• Growing & Managing a Business
• Leadership & Vision
• Managing Investment
• Organizing a Company
• Sales & Marketing
• The Board of Directors
• Tracking & Controlling Costs

Eric Press, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University. A CPA in Washington state, he was a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' SEC Regulations Committee from 1994 to 1998.

Jeff Woodman has been named one of the "Fifty Greatest Voices of the Century" by Audiofile Magazine. On stage, he created the title role in Tennessee William's The Notebook of Trigorin and won the S.F. Bay Area Critic's Circle Award for An Ideal Husband. He lives in New York City.